A story of civil war; of a quixotic battle against nature and loss; and of a family's unbreakable bond with a continent which came to define, shape, scar and heal them

Celebrates the life and work of Douglas Adams who, in a field in Innsbruck in 1971, had an idea that became "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

An original and highly entertaining memoir from a music icon.

Dorothy Macardle is best known as the author of The Irish Republic (1937), and novels The Uninvited (1942) and The Unforeseen (1946). This biography places Macardle in the context of her republicanism after 1916 and later within the politics and religious ethos of the post-colonial state.

Dorothy Macardle (1889-1958) was a political activist, journalist, novelist, broadcaster, playwright and influential historian. This first biography traces her life from her involvement in the War of Independence to her role as a leading civil libertarian in the 1950s, and discusses her literary career and her international human rights work.